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Cross Stitch Treasures, personalised samplers

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AURICLES OF LESLIE
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About Peter Leigh

I have been involved in making up pictures from either birch plywood or pine wood. The birch ply pictures are cut out using a scroll saw, then backed with a piece of blackened ply to give the finished effect. The plywood pictures are mostly of famous people i.e. John Wayne, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Munroe, James Dean, mostly American Stars.

The pictures made from pine wood are cut out like a jigsaw then sanded to round off the edges. They are then stained different colours and the parts are glued back together either raising or lowering the piece to give a 3D effect. When everything is dry, the item is then mounted on a wood background and given several coats of satin varnish.

Most breeds of dogs, cats and horses can be done from pictures. The patterns all come from America. Every picture made in pine wood is different owing to the grain of the wood.

Scroll saw segmentation portraiture is a new and exciting technique that involves a combination of fundamental scroll sawing and wood stain procedures. The process enables any scroll saw artist capable of following a line to create realistic looking three dimensional wooden portraits of objects, wildlife, and even likenesses of real people. Like a beautiful oil painting, a scroll sawn segmentation portrait in wood looks even more realistic when viewed at some distance.

Up close details may not make much sense, like the brushwork on the canvas of fine art painting may look visually disconnected.

However, when you step back a bit, all the colours, tones, textures and shadows emerge as a wonderful, coherent image. By and large the more pieces and the greater detail involved, the closer to photographic realism the whole becomes.

Please contact me if you have any queries - I also offer classes in scroll art.

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Where you can buy my products

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Alternatively, come and visit me at the following events:

23rd July, 10am - 4pm, Crail Community Hall, Crail, Fife

5th September, 10am - 4pm, Lochgelly Centre, Bank Street, Lochgelly, Fife

3rd October, 10am - 4pm, Rio Centre, St Marys Lane, Newport - on - Tay, Fife

12th - 18th October, 10am - 4pm, Scottish Deer Centre, by Cupar, Fife

31st October, 10am - 4pm, Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife

14th November, 10am - 4pm, Victory Memorial Hall, St Andrews, Fife

28th - 29th November, 10am - 4pm, Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife

Hope to see you there!

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Contact me

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Peter Leigh, 12 Valley Grove, Leslie, Fife, Scotland, KY6 3BZ

Telephone: +44 (0) 1592 743539

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